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“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
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“All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion.”
― Britt-Marie var här
― Britt-Marie var här
“Um Schriftsteller zu sein, musst du leiden, das weißt du. Du brauchst diese verborgene Wunde in dir. Du musst bluten.”
― The Other Story
― The Other Story
“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”
― Crossed
― Crossed
“This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
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